Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
The way to become boring is to say everything.
The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.